2019-2020 Boiling Point Staff

Some people have to discover their interests; others have no choice but to follow them. Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks has been a member of the Boiling Point staff since the first semester of his freshm...

After joining the Boiling Point in his freshman year, Gilad got involved with the online and social media aspects of the paper, creating the post of Social Media Editor and becoming Deputy Web Editor-in...

Zev has been the main graphic designer for the Boiling Point since the first issue of his freshman year. He started with a big bang: contributing to the double-truck design about the presidential election...

Sam Rubanowitz currently serves as Executive Producer of the Talking Point podcast, as well as Outside News Editor and Chief Video Editor of the Boiling Point. Sam joined as a staff writer at the start...

Alex joined the Boiling Point as a staff writer in his sophomore year, rose to Sports Editor in his junior year and is serving as both Sports Editor and Senior Editor this year. Aside from journalism,...

Nicholas Fields has been a member of the Boiling Point since freshman year. Starting off with a story about freshman orientation, he quickly fell in love with journalism. After serving as a staff writer...

Molly Litvak joined the Boiling Point in her freshman year as a staff writer and quickly fell in love with journalism. She was editor of Outside News in her sophomore year and won national multiple awards...

Kate Orlanski joined the Boiling Point as a staff writer during her freshman year and now serves as Features editor during her junior year. Outside of journalism, she is co-chair of the Young Americans...

Liad Machmali joined the Boiling Point during her freshman year as a staff writer and is now editor of the Torah section. As a freshman, she wrote stories about the Young Americans for Freedom club and ...

Zach Helfand joined the Boiling Point as Opinion Editor in his senior year and is eager to make an impact in the time he has left at the school. Aside from Boiling Point, Zach participates in the scho...

Sarah Feuer joined the Boiling Point freshman year and has been working on the layout team since. This year, As Chief Layout Editor, she is excited to push the limits of design and create beautiful and ...

Now a photo editor, Maia Lefferman joined the Boiling Point as a photographer in her junior year. Her skill and passion for photography have provided the BP with pictures of striking LAUSD teachers, election...

After joining the Boiling Point in his first semester of freshman year, Eli quickly became involved with web design. As assistant web editor in his second semester, he helped redesign the website and bring...

Shayna Becker started working for the Boiling Point during her first semester at Shalhevet and has gradually become more involved in reader engagement, through brainstorming out-of-the-box ways to best...

Neima Fax has been a part of the Boiling Point team for three years now, and cannot wait for her fourth. She started out as a photographer, spent two years as Photo Editor, and is now starting as the Creative...

Joelle Keene, CJE, has been the faculty advisor of the Boiling Point since 2003, and is also the founding director of the Jewish Scholastic Press Association. She obtained her master's degree from Columbia U...

Tamar Willis is a graduate of Princeton University where she wrote and served as business manager for the culture magazine Nassau Weekly.
She joined the Boiling Point staff in ninth grade and served as...

Hannah Jannol was Editor-in-Chief of the Boiling Point during the 2017-2018 school year. Since then, she has attended The New School and written for their HerCampus chapter; edited obituaries for The Tra...

In four years at the Boiling Point, Alec Fields has wrote stories for every section and won some of the top awards in high school journalism, including the Quill and Scroll Sweepstakes Award for best n...

After serving as staff writer, Features Editor, and Outside News Editor over the previous three years, Eric Bazak served as Editor-in-Chief for the 2015-16 school year. He is currently a freshman at ...